N Korea has hydrogen bomb, says Kim Jong Un

PYONGYANG (92 News) – The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has on Thursday said that the country now has a hydrogen bomb and is capable of using it along with nuclear warheads to defend its sovereignty.

“We managed to become a great nuclear power capable of defending the independence and national dignity of our homeland by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes,” Kim Jong-un said. He also said North Korea “has to continue with actively developing its military industry.”

The statement came as Kim Jong Un was on a tour inspecting an upgraded arms plant in Pyongyang on Thursday. So far it has not been confirmed that the country has in fact designed and created a hydrogen bomb.

A hydrogen bomb is a nuclear weapon of mass destruction that uses energy from a primary nuclear blast to ignite a secondary nuclear fusion, and is by far the most powerful weapon on earth. The first country to build an H-bomb was the Soviet Union, whose AN602 hydrogen bomb (often referred to as the “Tzar Bomb”) was tested in 1961.